CF neighbour AIBU

[Crispandco]

AIBU?
Our general waste bin is collected every three weeks, and recycling every two weeks. It’s a relatively new system, and as a family of four, our black bin is always full by collection day.
Our black bin was collected last Tuesday, so we still have another two weeks to go before it’s emptied again.
Anyway, back to the AIBU bit. My CF neighbour put two black bin bags in our bin (one small and one large). Her bin is already full, so I think she’s having a clear-out.
I didn’t actually see her do it, but my neighbour from across the road, who I’m friends with, did.
I’m not sure whether I should say anything, but it’s really annoyed me. Am I being petty?
They’re elderly, so maybe she doesn’t want to go to the tip, but it also means we’ll probably have to make a trip to the tip ourselves now.

So mines £50 every 6 months, and you have to renew it.

I’d let it go this time but put a bin lock on then if anyone said anything just say that you don’t know who was filling your bin up but it meant you had to go to the tip!!
I wouldn’t engage with the neighbours about it.

using other peoples bins or even putting household waste in litter bins is fly tipping

You are clearly generating more waste than the average household if one wheelie bin can't hold the all the rubbish you are making. You ought to do the decent thing and work out how to be less of a wasteful person and start recycling or composting better instead of dumping your waste on someone else.

Our bin collections are the same as OP and the local authority had to create an app so people can keep track, and for those without the app they follow the ‘binfluencer’ - which is usually me in our corner:

1. food - weekly
2. recycling - every 2 weeks
3. garden waste - every 2 weeks (paid for separately)
4. general waste - every 3 weeks Some weeks when the stars align, all 4 go out together - it’s carnage on the kerbs and pavements!

Exactly this. Binfluencer 😂

Still not ok. Our neighbour filled our bin till the lid wouldn’t close once it was out, the bin men were late as it was Hogmanay and as it was Hogmanay my inside bin filled up and I had nowhere to put the rubbish!

That would annoy me but I would just take the bags out and leave them beside their bins so they know they have been spotted.

Our general waste and garden bins are emptied weekly and recycling (one paper/cardboard one glass, tins etc.) fortnightly. If you miss the collection for any reason you can lodge a “collection missed” request with the Council and they will be collected within 24 hours.

Take the bin bags out and return them. Yanbu. Also three weeks here for rubbish and two weeks for recycling. It's not easy.

Take the bags out, leave them by their bin, do not offer to take them to the tip next time you do a tip run, it's not your problem to solve and will become expected if you offer

We have free bulky removals because people were constantly fly tipping. Fortnightly bin collections though

I don't see why you should offer to take them to the tip for them unless you'll genuinely be going door and don't mind? If you are then the bags wouldn't matter anyway would they?

Just put the bags back on their doorstep. It's really cheeky of them.

I’d have taken them out and put them back in their garden but I’m petty.

Just put the bag back on her drive. And then put your bin where she can't get at it.

You don't need to dispose of their rubbish for them. They've taken advantage of you already. It will continue if they are having a clear out. If I had the room in my bin and someone asked first, I wouldn't mind at all, but they didn't ask. There's no need to be accommodating to rude, entitled people.

We’ve have this once you get use to it it’s fine

When our neighbours moved in they put 2 bags in our already full bin, clear it was theirs we took them out and placed them next to their bin. If they’d have asked we’d have said if the bin isn’t full fine but if the lid isn’t closed they won’t take it so no. Some people’s sense of entitlement is bewildering.

Remove them from your bin (wear disposable/rubber gloves), go round to her house and hand them back. Be polite and say you have NO room for their rubbish and can she please ask before dumping anything in your bin again. Of course, your answer will be no but be polite, show no hostility…….neighbour took a chance and it backfired.

I have to say our neighbours have kindly offered for us to put rubbish in their bin because we’re a family of 7 so after 2 weeks, ours is absolutely rammed and overflowing whereas they don’t use as much. That’s kind and we have taken them up on it. Here it’s different because yours gets full and they didn’t even ask. So yeah, just dump the bags in their garden.

So have you returned their rubbish to them yet? How rude of someone to think they can just dump their waste on someone else's property. You'd be a fool to offer to tip it for them after that.

Our old neighbour always put his recycling in our bin which annoyed me as we had different bins then and he always put things in the wrong one, meaning the bin men wouldn’t take the bins. The last time he did it I took all his stuff out and took it back to him and told him, he never used them again. I would take the bags out and take back to your neighbour and say you don’t have the room in your bin.

We have general every 2 weeks, recycling every 2 weeks, garden every 2 weeks (except winter months). No food bin (yet; the council are trialling it somewhere apparently).
OP I would agree take the rubbish back. I have an agreement with our next door neighbour that I can put recycling in her bin if ours is full and hers isn’t (she’s on her own and ours is always full) but I only do it on the morning of the bin collection and crucially, I’ve actually asked her!

I’m feeling really lucky now that we get collections of rubbish and recycle weekly. Fair play to those who don’t generate much rubbish, but I would struggle and I don’t drive so couldn’t do tip runs. Can’t imagine a taxi wanting to take me and all my excess rubbish!

I think it’s disgusting really the amount of council tax we all pay.

Anyway, yes I would just dump it back on her doorstep.

Wow general refuse is really being collected every 3 weeks in the UK? In my council flat in France it's twice weekly and once a week for recycling, I'm feeling very lucky indeed

Makes no difference if she's 18 or 88. Take the bin out, put it on her doorstep, then as others have advised, get a bin lock.

You're very restrained as I would go nuts.